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‘The internet’s on fire’ as techs race to fix software flaw
Boston: A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft —...
US using democracy as ‘weapon of mass destruction’ to stoke confrontation: China on Biden’s Summit for Democracy
Beijing: China on Saturday accused the US of using democracy as a “weapon of mass destruction” to "stoke divisions and...
UK seeks unity at G7 meeting over Russia’s ”malign behaviour”
Liverpool: Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialised nations gathered beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, England, for a...
53 die in horror crash of truck smuggling migrants in Mexico
Tuxtla Gutierrez (Mexico): Rescue workers rushing to a highway accident found a horrific scene of death and injury after a...
UN chief: Climate change aggravates conflict and terrorism
United Nations: Climate change is “an aggravating factor” for instability, conflict and terrorism, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. The...
UN: Afghanistan’s economy is collapsing `before our eyes’
United Nations: The UN humanitarian chief warned that Afghanistan's economic collapse “is happening before our eyes” and urged the international...
Biden to decry democracy ‘recession’ at White House summit
Washington: President Joe Biden is ready to urge participants at the first White House Summit for Democracy to reverse an...
US ‘weaponising’ democracy, China on Biden’s Summit
Beijing: China on Thursday accused the US of "weaponising" democracy and attacked the Biden administration's initiative of the Alliance for...
Reports: Myanmar troops burn alive 11 in retaliation attack
Bangkok: Myanmar government troops raided a small northwestern village, rounding up civilians, binding their hands and then burning them alive...
Biden-Putin talks yield no breakthrough in Ukraine tensions
Washington: President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were still far apart after two hours of talks on the escalating crisis...